Structural susceptibility and separation of time scales in the van der Pol oscillator

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Chachra, Ricky ^a   Transtrum, Mark K ^a   Sethna, James P ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES; HESSIAN MATRICES; LEAST-SQUARES COST FUNCTIONS; LIMIT CYCLE; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MULTI-PARAMETER MODELS; MULTIPLE TIME SCALE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETER COMBINATION; PARAMETER SPACES; SLOW MANIFOLDS; TIME-SCALES; VAN DER POL OSCILLATOR; VAN DER POL SYSTEMS;

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; DYNAMICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); SEPARATION;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84865957928     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.026712     Document Type: Article

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